What About This?

By Wayne William Cipriano Well, the Hammer of Winter certainly fell on the Spring/Summer of Autumn, didn’t it? We have to be grateful for all the extra time we got for our activities that October and November usually deny us. ...

By Wayne William Cipriano As far as money is concerned, we must hold our elected officials in low repute as so many rules, regulations, and laws have been adopted to prevent them from enriching them-selves while “serving” the public. One ...

By Wayne William Cipriano Our Thanksgiving turned out to be a bit more exciting than we had planned. Old Tom and all the fixin’s, and the magnificent decorations and spectacular table setting with center-piece have never been previously equaled. The ...

By Wayne William Cipriano Well, if you plan to take anyone’s advice to place a political bet you want to avoid mine! I was so sure that Clinton would win big, really big, and that Trump would not merely be ...

By Wayne William Cipriano What do you think about early voting? What is “early voting” anyway? In Missouri we do not have early voting. If we cannot get to the polls on Election Day, and we can come up with ...

By Wayne William Cipriano As I was looking over the Douglas County Herald to see if the Mayor and the city council had followed my suggestions for renaming some of the city’s streets, I saw a piece soliciting bids for ...

By Wayne William Cipriano Pretty much everyone dislikes change. Even when those changes don’t directly affect me, they may sprout other changes that will, and I might not, probably won’t like whatever will be forthcoming. My Dad frequently intoned one ...

By Wayne William Cipriano I attended the October 20, 2016, school board meeting and delivered these remarks to the board: Good evening, and thank you for the opportunity to address you. It has been a month since our school board ...

By Wayne William Cipriano Everyone has their favorite season and plenty of reasons why that season is the best. And, as long as that season is Autumn, they are completely correct. Here it is again. A composite gift of the ...

By Wayne William Cipriano There was a time, not too long ago, when athletes worked for a living, trained in their spare time, paid their own expenses, and competed against other similarly supported amateurs for the honor of representing their ...